enchanting

There was a video about "sweet home chicago" just recently. Honestly, I can't get it out of my head. This blues player, who's quite good plays every single day at noon 15 feet below our window. It's like surround sound and he plays "sweet home chicago" several times/day.

Music is constant where we are, so it has simply become white noise for the both of us. People that hang out at our flat find it amusing that we have everything timed out now. The magician on the corner will show up in about 15 minutes and does a great act with a cigarette. The statue street performer does the same trick over and over and is getting ready for her act that will usually last at least an hour. The blues band is on at noon. The dualing bagpipers on opposite corners will battle it out around 7pm, and the ceilidh band plays very late, around 10pm and plays till midnight just below our flat.

My favorite, and I hope to get some video of it is this guy who plays the guitar just up the street. All he does is sing songs about people walking by him, sooo funny. Some inappropriate material, but some of the wittiest stuff I've ever heard. I remember him from last year.

There are acts just down the street and we have them pretty much memorized by this point.

The festival shines a light on how diverse humanity really is. I could sit at our table overlooking the atmosphere for hours. It's quite enchanting.

I tuned out of the white noise just now to overhear a bunch of tourists doing a call n' response with the blues player.....back to the same old song (blues player) sweet home chicago (european tourists).

So ironic.